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Uphill MSS 4.17
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Fecha(s)
- c. 1980s-2000s (Creación)
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2 folders
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Historia archivística
The estate of Eric Uphill.
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Donated by the executors of the estate of Eric Uphill in 2022.
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"Project XV. Nubian fortifications: a. Fortresses; b. Forts and fortlets; c. Town walls; d. Administrative buildings; e. Hydraulic + irrigation projects"*
114 pages (113 single-sided + 1 double-sided)
An almost complete publication draft on Nubian fortifications, annotated typescript, some handwritten notes, mostly measurements for buildings and sites, a few maps and plans sourced from publication and the web, and correspondence.
Some of Uphill's section headings and a list of the sites discussed:
- Phases
- Middle Kingdom
- New Kingdom
- Concept of zones of defence
- Eleventh Dynasty phase in Nubia
- Uphill has not given the sections within this group top-level headings to introduce them. Uphill uses the same arrangement as his Hyksos fortifications documentation, see Uphill MSS 4.16:
- Major military bases
- Large cities
- Large towns
- Small towns
- Small settlements
- Fortlets
- Palaces
- Inscriptional evidence
- Nubian hydraulic constructions
- Scale of some Egyptian building schemes
- Middle Kingdom C-Group graves
- Conspectus of Nubian fort system
- Postulated Nubian irrigation basin system from archaeological evidence
- Alternative scheme for pharaonic large basins and Nubian small ones
- Final figures for the pharaonic system of basins and dams
- Buhen evidence
- Mirgissa evidence
- Possible double wall river bank dykes
- The system
- Scheme employing stone paved levelled irrigation basins
- Possible Narmer-Scorpion features
- Scheme using large earth banks
- Scheme using minimum walling
- The following sites feature:
- Aniba; Askut; Aswan; Buhen; Faras; Ikhur (Kuri); Kor; Kuban; Kumma; Mirgissa; Semna; Serra East; Sesebi; Shalfak; Uronarti
- Letter from Derek Welsby, The Sudan Archaeological Research Society, dated 04-02-1999, in response to Uphill's request for information on the 'wadi walls in the NDRS concession' at Dongola
*Uphill's description for this group as recorded on the original housing. This note has been retained.
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